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French health minister confirms death of man from virus that has killed more than 1,500 people around world | French health minister confirms death of man from virus that has killed more than 1,500 people around world |
Europe has its first coronavirus fatality as an elderly Chinese tourist in France has died from the disease, the country’s health minister confirmed. | |
The 80-year-old Chinese man was among 11 confirmed coronavirus cases in France, with their death announced by the French health minister, Agnès Buzyn, on Saturday. | |
The tourist, who had been treated at the Bichat hospital in northern Paris for the past three weeks, died of a lung infection due the disease, the minister was told on Friday. | |
There been more than 66,000 cases of coronavirus worldwide, with the death toll passing 1,500 as health authorities reported an additional 143 fatalities overnight. | |
It also marks the first death outside Asia. Only three deaths had previously been reported outside mainland China - in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan. On Friday, it emerged that the first case of coronavirus had been confirmed in Africa with Egypt’s foreign ministry explaining that a “foreigner” had been placed in hospital isolation. | |
In the UK, which so far has nine confirmed cases of the disease, more than 200 people, including several MPs, have been urgently contacted by health officials after it emerged a delegate at a conference they attended has contracted coronavirus. | |
Two MPs have put themselves in isolation after Public Health England wrote to attendees of the UK Bus Summit in Westminster on 6 February warning them of the development. |